Sources also told the website that Turner Construction has been named general contractor for the two-year project, which is “expected to cost more than $100 million.”

SportsBusinessDaily.com says the Browns “are expected to announce the renovation later this month.”

Zak Gilbert, director of communications for the Browns, did not immediately return a phone call from Crain's placed around 12:25 p.m. today.

The story notes that for both Gensler and Turner, “the common thread is Browns CEO Joe Banner.”

Before getting the job in Cleveland, the story notes, Mr. Banner was president of the Philadelphia Eagles. Last summer, “the Eagles hired Gensler to design $160 million in upgrades to Lincoln Financial Field” in Philadelphia, the story reports.

In addition, Turner Construction, the Eagles' general contractor, “originally built the team's stadium, which opened in 2003,” according to the story. “At that time, Ron Turner, no relation to the builder, was employed by NBBJ, the firm that designed the Linc. Turner is now Gensler's director of sports and entertainment.”

This and that

Up to the minute: The Cleveland Cavaliers are among the early adopters of a calendar app called UpTo, which is profiled here by VentureBeat.

“A year ago, UpTo was going to be the social network that lives in your calendar,” according to the story. “Today, with 250,000 downloads, a million events, and a $2M series A round under his belt, the company realizes that a modernized calendar is a big enough vision on its own, thank you very much.”

VentureBeat says this is called a “pivot” — and nearly every successful startup goes through one.

“Instagram started as a location app with support for photos and pivoted to a photo app with support for location,” CEO Greg Schwartz tells VentureBeat. “We're pivoting from social first to calendar first.”

The story notes that UpTo last week launched version 2.0 of its popular — and Apple-featured — app.

UpTo 2.0 “highlights your personal calendar, plus adds typical calendar features such as built-in meeting invites,” according to the story. “It also extends the traditional calendar with innovative little features such as enabling a single tap on teleconference events to initiate the call and built-in driving directions to remote meetings.”

Early adopters included the Cavaliers, TicketMaster and the state of Michigan. The $2 million financing series was led by Cavs owner Dan Gilbert's Detroit Venture Partners.

The decision “gives retailers such as Amazon added flexibility to sell digital books more cheaply and gain market share,” according to the story. The decision “may also lead to greater government oversight of the iPhone maker's ability to control pricing in other markets, such as music and movies.”

Apple fought the lawsuit, denies it was trying to fix prices and has vowed to appeal the ruling.

But the company's appeal “isn't likely to prevail, and a final penalty could be in place within a year,” according to Christopher Sagers, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law professor.

He says the ruling may put Apple in a similar situation as Microsoft Corp., which faced increased oversight as part of its deal to resolve antitrust charges. (Bloomberg notes the software maker “was subject to periodic status reports to check whether it complied with its settlement with the government.”)

“We're likely to see pretty broad, invasive government monitoring,” Prof. Sagers tells Bloomberg. “This case could have a big effect in how they set up new businesses.”

Prof. Stacher writes that the military's coup in Egypt “has placed the American political establishment in a bind. Many observers insist that the Obama administration must either formally condone the military takeover or call it a 'coup,' which would require a cutoff of American aid, as Senator John McCain has advocated.”

But such a semantic debate “misses the larger point,” according to Prof. Stacher. “While a minority of Congressional representatives bicker with the White House, State Department and Pentagon over the definition of a “coup” and what the Obama administration must do to comply with federal law, the Egyptian military has already cleverly satisfied many of the conditions to keep the aid flowing — namely, it has installed a civilian-led government and set a timetable for elections.”

This “window dressing,” he writes, “shouldn't hide the fact that a coup took place, nor should it stop the United States government from reacting to it as the law prescribes. If (President Barack) Obama wants American rhetoric about democracy to be taken seriously in the wake of a military intervention, aid to Egypt's army has to be on the chopping block, as our laws state. Egyptians are already suspicious of American intentions — and they will be even more skeptical of America's goals if we fail to respect our own legislative checks on foreign assistance as they try to build their own democracy.”

A cut above: A Forbes.com critique of a recent list from TheDailyMeal.com of the nation's 20 best steakhouses rises to the defense of a Beachwood establishment.

Forbes.com quibbles with the list's methodology — something a lot of people do when it comes to Forbes.com's own lists — and objects to some overrated places making the top 20.

The “most obvious omission” from the list, Forbes.com writes, “was Red The Steakhouse, a simply phenomenal restaurant with locations in Cleveland, Boca Raton and Miami's South Beach. Red is one of the very, very few U.S. eateries actually importing real Japanese beef.”

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